The Plum Thicket
by Janice Holt Giles
2021-01-10 10:27:39
At age forty-eight-the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel--Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparents' home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with ...
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At age forty-eight-the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel--Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparents' home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket.
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